I had a defining moment 30 years ago (I have shared this before...) when a Brazilian colleague of mine was eating her salad: no salad dressing, just the salad ingredients. She had two kids and she had a figure that any 18-year old would envy.

She said these words: when you slather your salad with salad dressings, it trains your taste buds to only taste strong and artificial tastes... but my salad is very flavorful: each piece of vegetable has its characteristic taste and it's lovely.

I started to train myself and my taste buds to experience what she experienced. I am still not quite there, but I am much closer.

I don't use artificial sweeteners (other than for testing) and now I have accomplished the seemingly impossible: I don't think of sweets, and even when I taste something sweet, like a chocolate chip, I find it nothing desirable.
It is actually disappointing, just like bread was disappointing after nine months of no bread.

Once you are weaned off the stuff, you will be able to eat just a little bit, here and there... I hope. But if it works like alcohol or smoking (I don't think so, but we shall see... so far I was able to say no to any of the bread, potatoes, etc. even though I got a taste of it again...) then you may have to call yourself a recovering carb addict till you die... but even that is better than being dull, dumb, delusional, and a loser, if you ask me.

Because the brain is able to change itself at any age because of its plasticity, you can teach, even an old dog, new tricks.

But you need to say good bye to the taste as well... sorry. The brain regulates the taste preferences, and if you keep up the sweet taste, it will get it wherever it can... and then you are back, addicted, sluggish, craving, dumb, and delusional.

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Sophie, I’m not sure I agree with some of your points on this matter. First of all you don’t seem to make much of a distinction between good carbs like fruits and vegetables and bad carbs like chips and bread. There is a huge difference. Fruits and veggies are loaded with fiber which slow down the digestive process and do not cause the spike in insulin level like processed carbs like sweets and bread. It’s the spike and then crash of insulin that lead to craving more of the same.

Eating a high protein high fat diet leads to acidity, which lead to all sorts of health problems including cancer. Raw fruits and vegetables are very alkalizing. Cancer can only survive in an acid environment. Just use the eye test. Go to YouTube and type in Atkins or Protein Diet. What you’ll see is a bunch of pale skinned, bloated sickly looking people.

Then type in Fruitarian or Raw Food Diet and you will see the most healthy, thin people with the most beautiful glowing skin you’ve ever seen.

You also talked about the poor diet versus the rich people diet. I think if you go back throughout history you’ll find that poor people were healthier than rich people. Take Rome for example. The members of the government sat up in the stands all fat and pasty, eating their high protein diets, while in the arena were the gladiators, the fittest healthiest members of the society, and they lived off of beans and barley.

The oldest, healthiest people in the world today are Asian, and they eat mostly fresh vegetables and rice, with a little fish thrown in. The problem we have is all the processed foods with the good fiber taken out. I think a high protein diet leads to high acid levels and health problems. I think there is plenty of evidence to support that.

Junk food, not good carbs from fruits and vegetables leads to depression, in my opinion. And remember, you asked for it.

Sophie, I am not an expert on this subject, and neither are you. You ask readers for their comments and then you bash them over the head when they don’t agree with you. No wonder so few people ever leave comments.

I have lots of personal experience with weight issues. Like most people, I have tried and failed at most diets. Still struggle today. But of all the diets I have ever tried, the only one that ever worked for me was a raw fruit and vegetable diet. I once weighed 340 lbs and like so many others, every new diet always lead to me gaining all the pounds back with a few extra to boot. I lost 70 pounds eating as much fruits and veggies as I wanted to eat. Then I went to a family reunion where there was nothing but fried foods and lots of sweets and within that weekend I was back to being hooked on the typical American diet of too much meat, fats and refined carbs. I haven’t gotten back on the diet since, even though I keep saying I’m going to. But the big difference is that I have not gained all the weight back and that have been a couple of years ago. Unlike other diets that deplete your body so that you are starving once you finally give up, this diet had positive effects on my body that are still with me to this day. I put back on a few pounds and then remained at that level and feel much better than when I was 340.

Yes, I’m still overweight. Yes I’m still addicted to the fast food. Yes, I still make excuses for not going back on the diet. But, at least I now know what does actually work. I just have to do the work.

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